The meta-employees generally vote on the issues that managers should answer to the company’s scale. Before such a rally scheduled for Thursday, several of the most sleepy questions were linked to Dei. But meta-leadership has told employees that the popularity of a certain question no longer guarantees that business managers will respond to one of the employees. New York Times earlier reported Change.
A number of American companies, including in the technology industry, Deleted mentions Diversity objectives and programs in their annual deposits about a year ago in the midst of increasing criticism of initiatives in the form of civil proceedings and pressure from militant investors. A new series of discounts has been announced by retailers, restaurants, manufacturers and technological developers while President Donald Trump returned to the White House this month.
Trump has criticized several times Policies and programs, calling them “absurdity“And” discriminatory “. After being inaugurated on January 20, Trump quickly moved to end Dei programs in federal government agencies.
The meta-PDG, Mark Zuckerberg, sought to warm up his relationship formerly Frosty with the president in recent months. Wednesday, Meta and Trump concluded an agreement to settle a trial that Trump brought The temporary suspension of its user account After January 6 Capitol insurrectionaccording to A Federal Court file. Meta agreed to pay around $ 25 million, most of the funds to the future Trump’s presidential library, The Wall Street Journal reported. Dani rising, a spokesperson for Meta, confirmed the report to Wired. Trump’s lawyers in the case did not respond to requests for comments.
Zuckerberg did not recognize the regulations on the call for the quarterly profits of the company on Wednesday, but applauded the president. “We now have an American administration proud of our main companies, prioritizes priority to American technology, and which will defend our values and our interests abroad,” he said. “And I am optimistic about the progress and innovation that it can relax.”
In Meta, the effect of Dei cuts can be stifled, in part, because the company has been working to cut them for some time behind the scenes, according to a former employee of Meta familiar with the changes. “It was a slow and painful death,” they say. After the murder of George Floyd in 2020Then the head of the farm, Sheryl Sandberg, led the increased commitments of the company to diversity, in particular the commissioning of a Internal civil rights audit. In his Diversity report 2022Meta noted that he had doubled the number of women and black staff since 2019 as part of his diversity objectives.
With the support of Sandberg, the former Meta employee said: “There was like this huge energy rush to make the difference.” But in July 2022, Sandberg announced His departure daily business operations. Around the same time, the technology giant announced that it would begin to identify the teams to let go during upcoming generalized layoffs, which took place several months later. Possible cuts affected some 11,000 people and were the first blow For Meta’s progress in diversity, the former employee alleges.
